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    Aaron posted 25 Jun 2013 17:48
    Posted in The Lounge » Boat People - where to now!

    There is no legal way for any other country to remove him.  Unfortunate, but true.
    I think I'd better leave it at that because I fear I am getting off topic.
    Valvegear
    So you would have us leave those poor Iraqi (or whatever) people not aligned to Saddam's (or whomever's) wishes as lambs to the slaughter? Or perhaps we should be just mobilising whole communities and hundreds of thousands of people to flee? Are you aware that some of the Kurdish people it is known Saddam chemically attacked were on the way out of the country? Sometimes the end does have to justify the means, and after my long conversations with Nura about life in Iraq under Saddam I thoroughly agree that this was one of those cases. Even she thinks the actions taken were right, and she and her family had to flee the conflict zone.

    Another thing I forgot, whilst they literally fled with only what they could wear and carry, Nura had no passport, she had no need for one, and probably wouldn't have been issued one anyway. Yet the family still made sure they were carrying birth certificates and other documentary items proving their identities and guess what? Being legit, NOT ONCE did they consider not having the documents with them.

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    Edited 25 Jun 2013 18:05, 8 years ago, edited by Aaron

    There is no legal way for any other country to remove him.  Unfortunate, but true.
    I think I'd better leave it at that because I fear I am getting off topic.
    Valvegear
    So you would have us leave those poor Iraqi (or whatever) people not aligned to Saddam's (or whomever's) wishes as lambs to the slaughter? Or perhaps we should be just mobilising whole communities and hundreds of thousands of people to flee? Are you aware that some of the Kurdish people it is known Saddam chemically attacked were on the way out of the country? Sometimes the end does have to justify the means, and after my long conversations with Nura about life in Iraq under Saddam I thoroughly agree that this was one of those cases. Even she thinks the actions taken were right, and she and her family had to flee the conflict zone.

    Another I forgot, whilst they literally fled with only what they could wear and carry, Nura had no passport, she had no need for one, and probably wouldn't have been issued one anyway. Yet the family still made sure they were carrying birth certificates and other documentary items proving their identities and guess what? Being legit, NOT ONCE did they consider not having the documents with them.

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